I focus almost exclusively on PvP, whether solo, small gang, or large bloc warfare. In the past, I've been a miner, mission runner, and faction warfare jockey. I'm particularly interested in helping high-sec players get into 0.0 combat.

Saturday, January 18, 2014

The Big News I Hinted About

So, in this post,
I mentioned some big RL news that I’d been occupied with over the last couple
months.I’m happy to say that it’s been resolved,
and I can announce it now.

For the past ten months, I’ve been unemployed due to widespread
layoffs at my last job. Sure, it’s given
me time to hang out with my kids, but I’ve applied to over 200 jobs of a variety
of levels (from entry up to Directors of Marketing).For the past two months, I’ve been
interviewing for one of those Director of Marketing jobs, and I can happily
announce that I’ve gotten it.The long project
is over; I was even able to turn it into a promotion.

But, the interesting bit is that it requires me to relocate
to about 4 hours away.I say interesting
because, while I’m excited about the opportunity and the title increase, I’m very
anxious about giving up “home” and moving elsewhere. My mother would say it’s because I’m a Cancer (insert
“cancer on the body of Eve” joke here) and Cancers hate anything that disrupts their
home.Regardless, I’m very nervous.

But what really makes it interesting is that I just did the exact
same thing in my Eve life, moving from my null-sec home to a wormhole.That may actually be a bigger change than this
RL relocation.My old and new city are
very similar to each other, the environment is almost the same, the laws are all
the same.Pretty much the worst part is
separating the kids from their grandparents. Oh, and losing my EU TZ play time.In Eve, on the other hand, wormhole and null life
are vastly different.

Ironically, the sameness in RL is as comforting as the difference in Eve is enjoyable.

Not really sure what this going.Perhaps I’m just surprised at the differences
in effect within the same brain. I think
I’ll just let it stand as evidence that our online psyches and real life psyches
are in no way related, by virtue of the metaphysical fact that Eve is a game we
can choose to enter and leave at will, whereas our decisions in RL on that account
tend to be irrevocable.That veil of illusion
can – and just did – cause diametrically opposed reactions within the same
brain.

So, never let anyone tell you you’re boring because you mine
in Eve all day.Or that you’re a psychopath
because you PvP to collect tears.What
we do in Eve really has nothing to do with what we are in real life.So… rocks or fellow pilots… shoot away.

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